After much haggling over the date my Grandma, Ruth et Moi are heading for a Goan vacation. We are taking the Holiday Special which leaves Dadar at around 11:55p.m. We usually do the Goa trip once a year but I haven’t been there since the 2005 monsoons when I went for a week but had [...]

It has been a year since Uncle Clement passed away. But time has not dulled the memory of one of the gentlest men I knew. He was the “other” grandpa to me all the years I was tiny and used to live with him and Aunt Anne at Vakola when my own grandparents were on [...]

My grand uncle Louis and his wife Jennifer came down to India for a short break. While I see uncle Louis at least once a year I haven’t seen Aunt Jenny at all except in photographs. They spent a lovely day with us with Aunt Jenny regaling us with tales of London.